ResearchResearch projects
Global environmental change and sustainable development

Research Focus on Global Environmental Change and Sustainable Development

Research projects

Basic research

  • Consumption of sustainable food in the context of crises: Climate Change and the Covid 19 Pandemic in Lower Saxony
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Kerstin Nolte and Dr. Leonie Tuitjer
    Team: Hauke Kruse
    Year: 2022
    Funding: Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur
    Duration: 2022 - 2025
  • China-specific features of the emergence of innovations in artificial intelligence and environmental protection: Education system, interaction between science and economy, large-scale projects
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Ingo Liefner (LUH), Prof. Dr. Steffi Robak (LUH), Prof. Dr. Daniel Schiller (University of Greifswald)
    Team: Chris Brück (LUH), Xing Liu-Schuppener (LUH), Yang Liu (University of Greifswald)
    Year: 2021
    Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research
    Duration: 2021 – 2024
  • Implementation conditions for frugality in innovation processes
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Ingo Liefner
    Team: Julian Barnikol
    Year: 2020
    Funding: Lower Saxonian Ministry for Science and Culture
    Duration: 2020 - 2023
  • Local self-government of irrigation systems in the Talas Region (Kyrgyzstan)
    Led by: PD Dr. Matthias Schmidt
    Team: Dipl.-Geogr. Berit Böckel
    Year: 2018
    Funding: Self-financed, financial support by the Graduiertenakademie
    Duration: 2013 - 2018
  • Environmental change and resource use in South India. Discourses and gender perspectives in rural Kerala
    Led by: PD Dr. Matthias Schmidt (Universität Augsburg)
    Team: Korinna Klasing, M.A.
    Year: 2018
    Funding: Graduiertenakademie of LUH
    Duration: 2014 - 2018
  • Wind energy technology in Lower Saxony - A comparative approach to explain path creation and path dependence in a renewable energy.
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Rolf Sternberg
    Team: Dipl.-Geogr. Jasper Wellbrock
    Year: 2016
    Funding: The Lower Saxon Ministry of Science and Culture
    Duration: 2013 - 2016
  • Livelihoods and Natural Resource Management in Arid and Semi-Arid Environments of Ethiopia
    Led by: PD Dr. Matthias Schmidt
    Team: PD Dr. Matthias Schmidt, MA Olivia Pearson
    Year: 2015
    Funding: Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
    Duration: 2014 – 2015
  • An critical approach on transdisciplinary knowledge generation and knowledge transfer in spatial planning – an approach in reference to the climate change discourse
    Led by: PD Dr. Matthias Schmidt
    Team: Dipl.-Geogr. Timm Sebastian Wiegand
    Year: 2015
    Funding: Academy for Spatial Research and Planning (ARL), Headquarters(ARL), Geschäftsstelle
    Duration: 2012 - 2015
  • Natural Resource Management, Ecosystems and Biodiversity in Afar, Ethiopia
    Led by: PD Dr. Matthias Schmidt
    Team: PD Dr. Matthias Schmidt, MA Olivia Pearson
    Year: 2014
    Funding: Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
    Duration: 2013 – 2014
  • Tsunami Risks, Vulnerability and Resilience in the Phang-Nga Province, Thailand
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Javier Revilla Diez (University of Hannover), Prof. Dr. Horst Sterr (University of Kiel), Prof. Dr. Ralf Ludwig (LMU Munich)
    Team: Philipp Willroth (University of Hannover), Hannes Römer (University of Kiel), Dr. Gunilla Kaiser (University of Kiel)
    Year: 2011
    Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG)
    Duration: 2008 - 2011
  • Sustainable regional development in Northrhine-Westphalia
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Rolf Sternberg
    Team: Dr. Christine Tamásy, Timea Szerenyi (University of Cologne)
    Year: 2001
    Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG) - SFB 419: Environmental problems of an industrial agglomeration: scientific solutions and socio-economic implications.
    Duration: 1999 - 2001

Applied research

  • Sustainability preferences of retail investors in investment advice
    Led by: Prof. Dr. Kerstin Nolte and Dr. Hanne Roggemann (iff)
    Team: Hauke Kruse
    Year: 2022
    Funding: Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU)
    Duration: 2022 - 2024